The medical specialist should be more than a practitioner, a Chicago obstetrician and gynecol­ogist said here Wednesday.
Dr. John I. Brewer, who de­livered the _Graffagnino Memori­al lecture at the Louisiana State University ScHool of Medicine • Wednesday, said he is basically opposed to training a specialist who only practices.
"The man who is a specialist has more time to read and study than the general practitioner. He should advance his field," said the Northwestern University med­ical school professor.
Very definitely, too few doctors devote themselves to advancing their speciality, added Dr. Brew­er.
EMPHASIZES WHYS
In his lecture he emphasized whys. Many facts are known, but not whys of these facts, Dr. Brewer said.
Dr. Brewer, whose textbook is used at LSU, said everything in medical textbooks is not "cut and; dried." !
"There are a lot of things we don't know — things a young fel­low should be intrigued with," he said.
The doctor, who is editor of the American journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said that re­search has to be encouraged on a personal relation basis. CITES EXAMPLE
"All you can really do in any education is to intrigue a person to want to learn," he commented.
Also, the medical educator, said Dr. Brewer, is trying not to restrict the specialist, but to give him a feeling for the knowledge of related areas.
Using the problem of abnormal bleeding as an example, he said this requires knowledge of several sub-sections of physiology and chemistry as well as medicine, surgery, and pharmacology.
"If a. man is going into a spe­ciality," said the doctor, "he should work toward all sorts of I things —| the many fields related to the speciality." PHOTO:
DR. ABE MICKAL (left), head of the Department of Ob­stetrics and Gynecology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, welcomes Dr. John I. Brewer of Chicago at the medical school Wednesday prior to Dr. Brewer's delivery of the Graffagnino Memorial lecture.

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The medical specialist should be more than a practitioner, a Chicago obstetrician and gynecol­ogist said here Wednesday.
Dr. John I. Brewer, who de­livered the _Graffagnino Memori­al lecture at the Louisiana State University ScHool of Medicine • Wednesday, said he is basically opposed to training a specialist who only practices.
"The man who is a specialist has more time to read and study than the general practitioner. He should advance his field," said the Northwestern University med­ical school professor.
Very definitely, too few doctors devote themselves to advancing their speciality, added Dr. Brew­er.
EMPHASIZES WHYS
In his lecture he emphasized whys. Many facts are known, but not whys of these facts, Dr. Brewer said.
Dr. Brewer, whose textbook is used at LSU, said everything in medical textbooks is not "cut and; dried." !
"There are a lot of things we don't know — things a young fel­low should be intrigued with," he said.
The doctor, who is editor of the American journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said that re­search has to be encouraged on a personal relation basis. CITES EXAMPLE
"All you can really do in any education is to intrigue a person to want to learn," he commented.
Also, the medical educator, said Dr. Brewer, is trying not to restrict the specialist, but to give him a feeling for the knowledge of related areas.
Using the problem of abnormal bleeding as an example, he said this requires knowledge of several sub-sections of physiology and chemistry as well as medicine, surgery, and pharmacology.
"If a. man is going into a spe­ciality," said the doctor, "he should work toward all sorts of I things —| the many fields related to the speciality." PHOTO:
DR. ABE MICKAL (left), head of the Department of Ob­stetrics and Gynecology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, welcomes Dr. John I. Brewer of Chicago at the medical school Wednesday prior to Dr. Brewer's delivery of the Graffagnino Memorial lecture.